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Fine Arts

The nonutilitarian arts, arts concerned primarily with the creation of beauty.

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Sub-headings:

Architecture
Design of buildings, landscapes and other types of structures and spaces.
Collectors & Collecting
Information on how to build an art collection as well as about collectors themselves.
Craft & Folk Art
Decorative arts and crafts both traditional and as they relate to specific ethnic groups.
Graphic Arts & Design
Resources concerning applied/commercial arts and design, including but not limited to graphic design, printmaking, illustration, book arts.
Photography & Film
Includes resources related to fine arts photography and filmmaking.
Performing Arts
Artistic works interpreted or performed by individuals or groups and presented in public venues such as concert halls or theaters. Includes history and study of various performing arts.
Visual Arts
The "traditional" visual arts: painting, drawing, sculpture.

Resources in this category:

AfterNoon: A Magazine of Art and Literature
http://www.motley-focus.com/afternoon.html
Antiques and The Arts Weekly
http://antiquesandthearts.com/
"The nation's leading source of information on antiques and the arts."
Art and Archaeology
http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/
Extensive reviews of worlwide art exhibits.
Art Deadlines List
http://artdeadlineslist.com/
"A monthly email newsletter listing art contests & competitions, art scholarships & grants, juried exhibitions, art jobs & internships, call for entries/proposals/papers, writing & photo contests, residencies, design & architecture competitions, auditions, casting calls, fellowships, festivals, funding, and other opportunities (including some that take place on the web) for artists, art educators and art students of all ages. "
The Art Magazine
http://www.artmagazine.co.uk/
"The Art Magazine for everyone including articles, letters, headlines, bulletin boards, feedback, reviews, views, workshops, techniques and much more!"
ArtCommotion
http://www.artcommotion.com/
"The Los Angeles Contemporary Arts Magazine."
Artnet
http://www.artnet.com/
"ArtNet is 'the leading online service for the art world' (CNN Moneyline). With up-to-date and comprehensive, searchable databases of auction records, gallery exhibitions and artists' portfolios, as well as international museum links and art fair Web sites. ArtNet offers World Wide Web users powerful tools and extensive up-to-date resources, art world news, exhibition reviews, columns, and feature articles by top art critics and columnists. "
Arts Journal: The Daily Digest of Arts and Cultural Journalism
http://www.artsjournal.com/
Arts Journal is a weekday digest of arts and cultural journalism. Direct links to over 180 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture. "Stories from sites that charge for access are excluded as are sites which require visitors to register, with the exception of the New York Times."
ArtsEditor
http://www.ArtsEditor.com/index.shtml
"ArtsEditor is a monthly magazine that will engage a diverse art world, with a primary emphasis on Boston and its surrounding communities - and across Massachusetts. ArtsEditor will report on and review the visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, and musical arts. We seek to provide our readers access to an extensive range of activities within the Arts through a contemporary publication."
Beat Magazine
http://www.beat.com.au/
This Australian publication is "a free street paper, published weekly, focusing on the music, arts and entertainment industries." Formerly Beats E-zine.
Carbon 14 Online
http://www.c14.com/
"Carbon 14 on-line is an abridged version of the regular 100-page print magazine. The site allows visitors to read selected interviews with musicians and artists, and (coming this year) delve into our archive of select back issue features."
Carnegie Magazine Online
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/
"Dedicated to the art, literature, science, and music of the Carnegie Museums and Library of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Magazine chronicles the people and events of Pittsburgh's most valuable cultural institutions. "
CrossConnect
http://tech1.dccs.upenn.edu/~xconnect/
"A tri-annual electronic journal for contemporary art and writing based at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia."
eclectricity
http://www.murrah.com/eclectricity/eclectricity.htm
"Amusing, intriguing, surprising, ironic, and other neuron tickling items of all sorts from around the web and elsewhere."
Encontro
http://www.arhu.umd.edu/technology/scholar.html#
"Encontro developed from a desire to create connections between artists and writers in the Maryland/Washington, D.C. area and their counterparts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is also an effort to better acquaint these cultures with each other by exploring their identities and influences, from the Afro-Brazilian religion of Macumba to the diversity of American pop culture. Encontro will provide a means of sharing these experiences through fiction, art and poetry. Each issue will present the work of four or more artists in either exhibition or studio tours format, as well as fiction, poetry and criticism in English and Portuguese. It will take the reader to related topics by establishing links to them."
FAT - fashion architecture taste
http://www.fat.co.uk/
"Founded in order to pursue urban scale art projects and to research the cross fertilisation of architecture with other visual disciplines."
Glossen
http://alpha.dickinson.edu/departments/germn/glossen/
Glossen is "an international bi-lingual scholarly journal on literature, film, and art in the German speaking countries after 1945."
Glyphs
http://www.glyphs.com/
"Art, music and film reviews."
IndiaStar-- A Literary-Art Magazine
http://www.indiastar.com/
"The first Literary-Art Magazine on the Web focussing on South Asia. It includes articles, fiction, poetry, book reviews, multimedia software reviews and art."
Journal of Contemporary Art
http://www.thing.net/jca/
Contains interviews, discussions and projects.
KINEMA: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/FINE/juhde/kinemahp.htm
KINEMA is a full-text online Canadian journal of history, theory and aesthetics of film and audiovisual media. The site has links to issues archived from 1993 to present (the last two years contains issues with selected full text articles).
Mediamatic Magazine
http://www.mediamatic.net/
"The accelerating convergence of modern media has created a maelstrom in which hype and relevance are difficult to distinguish. Located in the eye of this maelstrom, Mediamatic's strong philosophical and historical roots allow it to offer you a perspective on and participation in this digital 'third culture', where art and technology merge. Established in 1985 as a meeting place for video artists and TV dissidents, Mediamatic Magazine has evolved into today's sophisticated and beautiful quarterly on art and media and the changes being wrought by techno-culture, hypermedia and virtuality. Mediamatic focuses on understanding what's going on with our culture rather than boring you with the latest corporate mergers or technological breakthroughs. It is a magazine for literate people."
El Mercurio
http://www.mercurialis.com/
"Online version of magazine that has an art gallery of new Spanish painters and articles in Spanish about entheogens and dreams. "
Metropolis
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/
"Founded in 1981, Metropolis magazine is committed to the examination of contemporary life through focusing on the various design disciplines (architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning and preservation)."
Modernity: Critiques of Visual Culture
http://www.eiu.edu/~modernity/modernity.html
"Modernity attempts to serve as a forum for debates and dialogues that grapple with the competing interpretative strategies in play in current scholarship. In order to create continuity between consecutive issues, essays or letters which interrogate previously published material are always welcome. Published semiannually [Fall & Spring], Modernity offers the opportunity for thoughtful consideration and contestation of a community of voices."
Montreal Serai Quarterly
http://www.montrealserai.com/
"Founded in 1986, Montréal Serai is an arts magazine that publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and reviews of film, music, art, exhibitions, theatre and dance. Its primary focus is to create a social awareness about the existence and growth of newer communities in Quibec and Canada.New Arts, New Communities is therefore a statement about the emerging artistic presence of communities other than those of the traditional majority. Bringing the Margins to the Center is a statement of our intent to counteract exclusion, separation, and marginalisation when they occur in the arts and in society at large. Along with our theatre group of the same name, the Serai collective strives to promote works that are not exclusively franco, anglo, allo, or stereo - works that reflect and assert the diverse world we live in."
Moondance: Celebrating Creative Women
http://www.moondance.org/
"Art and written creations by and/or for women, including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, columns, and shorts."
De Museumkrant
http://www.museumserver.nl/museumkrant/
"The Museumkr@nt is a www-magazine on Dutch museums and cultural institutions (in Dutch). Along with articles and reviews it features an extensive exhibitions calendar.
New York Magazine
http://nymag.com/
This online edition of the paper magazine focuses on entertainment and the arts with an emphasis on the New York City area.
oFFbEAt
http://www.sfgate.com/offbeat/
"."oFFbEAt" it's a jazzy artfotainment journal from San Francisco and beyond.... with regular features that change weekly/monthly ....includes "Featured Artist" (in depth profile/portfolio of monthly artist), "Dr. Weirde's Mysterious Guide to San Francisco""
Parallel Gallery // Journal
http://www.va.com.au/parallel/x2/
"An on-line art gallery and journal of post-modernism and popular culture ."
Psyart
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/
"Psyart is a peer-reviewed, archived journal focused on psychological studies of the arts: literature, film, visual arts, or music."
Resource Library Magazine: American Art Online
http://www.tfaoi.com/resourc.htm
"Resource Library Magazine is the first and largest electronically published magazine devoted to American representational art. "
Review Magazine
http://www.plexus.org/review/
"Reviews of current art exhibitions in New York City."
switch
http://switch.sjsu.edu/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front....
"switch is the electronic arts journal of the CADRE Institute of the School of Art and Design at San Jose State University. It is published in electronic form on the Web three times annually. We are interested in fostering a critical viewpoint on issues and developments in the multiple crossovers between art and technology. Our main focus is on questioning and analyzing as well as reporting and discussing these new art forms as they develop in hopes of encouraging dialogue and possible collaboration with others who are working and considering similar issues. Switch aims to critically evaluate developments in art and technology in order to contribute to the formation of alternative viewpoints with the intention of expanding the arena in which new art and technology emerge."
Trout
http://www.trout.auckland.ac.nz/
"A South Pacific journal of the arts - featuring poetry, fiction, photography, reviews and listing recent NZ & Pacific books."
U-Turn
http://www.uturn.org/
"The "U-Turn Monograph Series" is an annual arts publication originally founded in Los Angeles, California in 1982 by James Hugunin as a tri-quarterly art journal called U-TURN which, since 1986, has been published in Chicago. Each year's effort may differ as to number of pages, from booklet to book-size. The Web page has featured aritcles, portfolios and links related to other sites.
Urthona
http://www.urthona.com/
"Urthona magazine explores the arts and Western culture from a Buddhist perspective."
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